An introduction to Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Iain Scott
Why is this the most frequently performed opera worldwide? Perhaps it is because it is based on real people whose concerns – family expectations, illness and mortality, love versus duty […]
An introduction to Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” with Iain Scott
The seeming premise of the opera that “women are like that” has challenged and provoked both audiences and directors for over two centuries. To some, broad disguises and comic deceptions […]
An introduction to Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” with Iain Scott
Benjamin Britten’s 1954 adaptation of Henry James’ classic 1898 gothic novella about malevolent spirits haunting (perhaps) innocent children retains the mysterious ambiguities of the original story. Are the ghosts hallucinations […]
An introduction to Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” with Iain Scott
This extraordinary and multi-dimensional opera combines and contrasts the low-brow appeal of popular comedy as expressed in the Commedia dell’arte with the high seriousness of a penetrating interpretation of Greek […]
